The first day of the invasion of Normandy in World War II, immortalised in films such as Saving Private Ryan and The Longest Day, is the inspiration for British model-maker Kevin Nunn's 1/72 scale ...

In 2021, Red Kite published a collection of Roy Huxley's Matchbox paintings An artist has saluted two painters who fired generations of youthful imaginations by creating art for Matchbox and Airfix ...

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They were notoriously fiddly to glue together... and took hours to paint. But generations of children spent their precious pocket money on Airfix plastic scale model kits. And as the firm celebrates ...

An artist has saluted two painters who fired generations of youthful imaginations by creating art for Matchbox and Airfix model kit boxes. Mark Postlethwaite tipped his wings in tribute following the ...